Don’t go away, come near. Don’t be faithless, be faithful. Find the antidote in the venom. Come to the root of the root of yourself. Molded of clay, yet kneaded from the substance of certainty, a guard at the Treasury of Holy Light — come, return to the root of the root of your Self. Once you get hold of selflessness, You’ll be dragged from your ego and freed from many traps. Come, return to the root of the root of your Self.

~Rumi

The unguarded , unhidden , undiluted self - where everything is left open - the fears , the joys , the words and self - the root of my inner being . The root of the changing self , the flight towards a higher goal all starts there.